IIRC it is illegal for junkyards to sell used Catalytic Converters.
At least it is in Canada.

Damned emissions legislation.

I just straight piped my 90 lumina, but that is an entirely different
animal than the teg. Thank god I don't have that car anymore.

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On Apr 30, 10:22*am, "Elle" <honda.lion...@spamnocox.net> wrote:
> "Tegger" <teg...@tegger.c0m> wrote
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> > ...because the original has a rust hole in it, which has
> > rendered it noisy.
>
> > New Honda OEM cats are $1,100, and are discontinued for my
> > car, to boot. I
> > am therefore reduced to trolling the aftermarket, for
> > which I have a
> > healthy distrust.
>
> > Enquiries at local garages turn up several brands. Good
> > prices all, but no
> > brands which inspire confidence. Being a twenty
> > first-century kinda guy, I
> > start looking online. Only to discover those very same
> > sorry brands and not
> > much else.
>
> > However, I do discover a listing that, at least visually,
> > looks
> > suspiciously like my own OEM cat, here:
> > <http://www.autopartswarehouse.com/search/?Ntt=hon1623&N=0&uts=true>
> > Check it out. It's a dead-ringer for the OEM cat and lower
> > heat shield.
>
> > I had a nice online chat with an sales rep from Auto Parts
> > Warehouse, the
> > seller of that cat.
> > A transcript is linked below. It's interesting reading.
> > <http://www.tegger.com/hondafaq/misc/apw-hon1623-chat-transcript.txt>
> > "John" is me. "Mari" is the APW rep.
>
> > The upshot is that their photo is /highly/ misleading.
> > Deliberately? You
> > decide.
>
> Sounds like the rep was saying it was just as likely the
> second photo she provided you was not quite reflecting what
> they sold.
>
> Considered a junkyard cat converter? I don't see them listed
> at one of the national U-Pull-It sites. Yet I often see
> intact muffler systems on junkyard Hondas.- Hide quoted text -
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